How AI Finally Helped Me Build the Blog I Always Wanted
For many years, I’ve been wanting a blogging platform that basically just allows me to type up a document and that will automatically post to my blog.
Well, it finally happened a couple years ago, and that was the beginning of this site. I write in Obsidian, and all my files are just plain markdown files.
I publish via a jekyll site, and I actually started this project in 2013, and failed. I couldn’t figure out how to make it work.
Then, in 2022, when ChatGPT came out, instead of Googling and searching forums for answers, I just picked up this project again and said, “I’m getting this error, what does it mean?”
That opened up a whole new world for me. I had always been a nerd, searching for different solutions, but this time, I could ask something else that would give me the direct answers, and help me if I got stuck. There was always some little issue that would hold me back before.
But now, It worked! But, here’s the kicker. I would remember that blog post I wrote about, say psychological safety, and then I would have to go find it. Well, how did I link to it right now? Usually, I would go scour my web site, find that old blog post, and then insert a hyperlink. Or maybe, I would want to remember that story about how my daughter ate my student’s homework (perhaps my favorite teaching story).
Here’s the amazing part. As recent as October 2025 I was trying to get my blog posts merged with my obsidian notes in a way that wouldn’t ruin it. But the technology just wasn’t there to do this monumental task for me!
And now, it is! So instead of searching all over the web for my blog posts links, I can just use <a class='internal-link' href='/2008/09/27/my-daughter-ate-my-homework/'>2008-09-27-my-daughter-ate-my-homework</a> and that blog post pops right up.
I’m such a nerd, but you don’t know how awesome this is! Without AI, this is work that I never would have been done. With AI, this is something that makes my life significantly better, and makes me want to write, because I can start connecting all my ideas in a way that makes total sense for me.
I’ve never been a coder, and I’m still not, but I am someone who has a lot of ideas. And with AI, I’m finally able to implement them. It’s seriously so much fun.
And the best part is that I’m also learning so much about how these technologies work. I’ve caught errors by the AI numerous times, and that’s not even the start of it. I love learning. I’m relentlessly curious, and AI has been a boon for those traits.
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